Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank. That gap is a demotion / penalty signal, but it is not exclusively moderator action: flags, the anti-flamewar algorithm, and moderator penalties may all contribute. Stories marked [flagged] on HN are omitted. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News ranking adjustments work. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)

×2.10 73 | 260 points by TheWaffleHax 14 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bot traffic from Yandex (cloudflare.com)

×5.59 89 | 452 points by walrus01 4 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wish you the best in the Offline (daverupert.com)

×2.50 74 | 75 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lobbying is corruption (carette.xyz)

×7.91 61 | 498 points by LucidLynx 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things (berkeley.edu)

×3.93 76 | 54 points by giuliomagnifico 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go (github.com/go-dev-auth)

×0.67 72 | 12 points by BisratMelak 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel (copilot.travel)

×1.45 57 #71 | 41 points by heikkikalliokos 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)

×4.23 31 #86 | 682 points by gumby 1 day ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (theguardian.com)

×4.09 31 | 193 points by NewJazz 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Double-Counted Future (yusufaytas.com)

×3.39 68 | 7 points by yusufaytas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI agents in a stand-up call (atoll92.github.io)

×1.40 32 #88 | 47 points by jonbaer 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people (bbc.com)

×2.50 42 #51 | 58 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitwarden Dual License Model (bitwarden.com)

×2.64 25 #58 | 388 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)

×2.41 23 #82 | 454 points by g-b-r 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects (rews.cc)

×5.68 24 | 65 points by ojosilva 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)

×2.37 23 | 113 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Placenta Is More Powerful–and More Mysterious–Than You Think (nautil.us)

×2.41 55 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European Alternatives (buy-european.net)

×4.98 22 #59 | 102 points by doener 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)

×5.59 23 #30 | 356 points by defly 7 hours ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude (theregister.com)

×4.31 20 | 51 points by alex_young 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (youtube.com)

×3.05 17 #43 | 128 points by pizzaiolo 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)

×2.12 53 | 3 points by drogus 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software

×2.00 57 | 3 points by theonly1me 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)

×4.29 14 | 135 points by utiiiD 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)

×1.96 14 #46 | 118 points by davikr 13 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says 'The Outlaws' Director Kang Yoon-Sung (variety.com)

×1.91 27 | 3 points by bariumbitmap 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm a 14-year-old building my first startup, Titan (titan-ai.co)

×1.12 19 | 5 points by Vidigoat 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Auto Vectorizing the RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results (phoronix.com)

×1.93 26 | 3 points by khalidkhair 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)

×3.45 12 #41 | 467 points by signa11 23 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)

×3.30 12 | 99 points by astlouis44 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Whistleblower's Testimony on Camera (youtube.com)

×2.33 60 | 3 points by Brysonbw 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)

×1.65 11 #57 | 204 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)

×2.22 10 #83 | 229 points by tonymet 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My radio station calls its listeners (canarics.com)

×1.22 16 | 3 points by attels33 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute (latimes.com)

×4.43 11 #35 | 22 points by Bluestein 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize (reuters.com)

×7.44 6 | 518 points by poly2it 2 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)

×2.25 6 #53 | 396 points by baal80spam 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)

×1.75 6 #54 | 170 points by arkj 20 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease (sciencedaily.com)

×2.69 6 #84 | 40 points by gradus_ad 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)

×5.94 5 #44 | 1399 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's Wrong with GitHub (gnu.org)

×1.70 6 #55 | 11 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications (tomshardware.com)

×2.11 9 #22 | 20 points by mathgenius 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)

×2.38 3 | 441 points by tosh 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)

×3.63 3 #7 | 253 points by ForHackernews 4 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)

×1.99 2 #89 | 419 points by simplyalec 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)

×3.15 2 #47 | 748 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)

×0.93 2 | 88 points by merksittich 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRCv3 (ircv3.net)

×2.26 2 #8 | 184 points by basilikum 4 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???